Improvement in mustache-guards



UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIGE,

ELIJAH AVEY, OF MOUNT MORRIS, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MUSTACHE-GUARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 184,317, dated November14, 1876 application filed June 10, 1876. v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIJAH AVEY, of Mount Morris, in the county of Ogle,and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inMustache- Guard and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures ot' reference markedthere- Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a perspectiveview of my mustacheguard, and Fig. 2 shows the same applied to a cup.

This invention has relation to mustacheguards; and the nature of myinvention consists in a mustache-guard, which is provided with clasps onits ends, in combination with a loop adapted to receive a napkin, andalso to afford an outside bearing against the cup, as will behereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a drinking-cup ofthe usualwell-known form, and B is a mustache-guard, which is adapted to tit theinside of the cup, and which is constructed with a concavity, a. To thisguard wire clasps are applied; also a loop, O. vThe clasps are formed ofvertical portions b b', which embrace lthe edge of the cup and hold theguard in its proper place, as represented in Fig. 2. The portions b bare connected by the loop G, between which and the guardplate B is aspace, which is adapted to receive a napkin. The loop O and the claspsmay be formed of" a single wire, as shown in the two figures.

My mustache-guard is adapted for cups of various sizes, and can bereadily detached from the same at pleasure, and used as a napkin-holder.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combined mustache-guard and napkinholder, composed ot' theguard-plate'B, clasps b b', and loop O, combined substantially asdescribed.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presencer of two witnesses.

ELIJAH AVEY. Witnesses:

A. NEWCOMER, J oNATHAN KNoDLE.

